HCM City will continue social distancing under the Government’s Directive No.16 and apply more stringent COVID-19 preventive measures in very high-risk areas, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said at a press meeting on July 21.
HCM City has suspended toll collections at BOT (build-operate-transfer) toll stations to support the fight against the latest Covid-19 outbreak.
There will only be two round trip passenger flights a day between Hà Nội and HCM City from midnight of Wednesday, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has announced.
The Provincial Youth Union, in the Northern province of Bắc Ninh, has intervened to save several young start-ups heavily impacted, by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Côn Đảo Island’s airport in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu is expected to be expanded to receive larger aircraft and increase its capacity to two million passengers a year.
More than 11.2 million employees, working at 375,000 businesses in the country, have received a reduction in their insurance premiums for occupational accidents and diseases, worth about VNĐ4.3 trillion (US$187.6 million), according to Việt Nam Social Security.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has approved a programme of children’s accidents and injuries prevention and control for the period 2021-2030.
HCM City People’s Committee has instructed authorities in Thủ Đức city and districts to set up quarantine facilities exclusively for asymptomatic COVID patients.
All people returning to Hà Nội from COVID-19 hit localities that are undergoing social distancing must isolate at concentrated, quarantine centres from midnight Wednesday under tough new regulations.
A further 5,343 new domestic cases of COVID-19 were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday, as well as 14 imported cases quarantined upon arrival.
In the complicated developments of COVID-19 pandemic that has spread in most provinces and cities across the country, preventing the pandemic from entering the city through transportation services is one of top priorities in Hà Nội.
Cần Thơ City and several provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta reported sharp increases in new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday (July 20).
The National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Wednesday afternoon announced 36 new deaths in HCM City, Đồng Tháp and Long An provinces.
VPBank will spend VNĐ150 billion (US$6.5 million) to buy 715 modern ventilators in emergency support for HCM City and southern provinces in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Việt Nam has manufactured the first test batch of COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik, according to an announcement by Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Vietnamese pharmaceutical company VABIOTECH released on Wednesday.
